Nightcall

Kavinsky and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo wrote and produced "Nightcall", which SebastiAn mixed and Florian Lagatta engineered at Gang Recording Studio in Paris. Lovefoxxx of CSS sings the choruses and Kavinsky, heavily processed, the verses. The single came out on Record Makers on April 2, 2010 by the song's Wikipedia page, with the artist page implying March 27 and Bandcamp dating the EP September 10, 2010; the lengths are 4:19 as a single and 4:18 on OutRun (some sources say 4:20). The Nightcall EP holds remixes by Dustin N'Guyen, Jackson, Breakbot, Robotaki and SAWAGii, and a remix contest drew 544 entries. A 2011 anniversary edition followed on November 11.

By Songfacts, the verses have a narrator driving to see his girlfriend to deliver unwelcome news, and Kavinsky has said the man died after crashing his Ferrari and returned as a zombie, perhaps hoping to turn her into one too, with "Zenith" as a sequel; Slashfilm calls it an eerie duet between the zombie and the ex-lover who moved on long ago. It was not written for the film: Nicolas Winding Refn used it in the opening credits of Drive (2011) after hearing it in his car. Kavinsky told Mixmag in 2022: I want people to talk to me about something other than "Nightcall" now.

It reached 10 in France, 16 in Wallonia and 37 in Switzerland, and is certified platinum in the US, gold in the UK, Germany, Denmark and New Zealand and diamond in France. The Olympics version, with Angele and Phoenix, reached 3 in France. London Grammar covered it with piano on December 8, 2013 (UK 53, Denmark 8), and Mark Morriss, My Vitriol and Inhaler (for Triple J's Like a Version in 2025) have too; setlist.fm shows 165 performances by other artists. Setlist.fm gives Kavinsky's own count as 17, his most played. It is interpolated or sampled in works by Bi-2, Elphomega, Lupe Fiasco, Vinny Cha$e and Kid Art, Childish Gambino and Will Young. It is also in The Lincoln Lawyer and Riverdale. We could not establish a video for it, and the version our upload carries is not known.